El Salvador / Preparation of Annual Plan of National Codex Program 2022 begins

The Codex El Salvador Contact Point, represented by the Salvadoran Organization for Technical Regulation OSARTEC, in a follow-up to the subscription of the Strategic Plan of the National Codex Program 2022-2024 carried out in September 2021, is developing the “Workshop for the Preparation of the Annual Plan of the National Codex 2022 Programme”.

The objective of the workshop is the discussion and contributions to the Proposal of the Annual Plan of the National Codex Program 2022 with the government, private, academic and consumer sectors. From the joint effort between these sectors, it is expected agreements will be reached that will give life to the Annual Plan of the National Codex Program 2022, which will establish the route to follow during the coming year to improve the consultation, communication and management processes of the Contact Point of Codex and CONACODEX for the proposal, analysis and recommendation of adoption of Codex regulations. Likewise, it will determine the actions to increase the technical and scientific capacity of the actors related to food safety and quality.

At the closing of the activities of this Workshop, scheduled for the 25th of November 2021, the inputs obtained from the discussion of the Annual Plan will be presented and subsequently the actions proposed therein will be validated.

This constitutes the first step to achieve the Development Objective of the Strategic Plan of the National Codex Program in El Salvador: “Increase the participation of key actors to propose and adopt Codex Alimentarius standards, as well as to evaluate the scope and compliance of their implementation for the reduction of ATS and the facilitation of trade. "